Alienstyle

Posted 12 Jun 2017

Alienstyle is a fairly simple demo made by Renderman from Protest Design released in April 1999. You might remember them from their magnum opus, Dexanoid. This is a demo which is like many other homebrew projects from back in the day; some background image, some ‘scrolling’ text and some in-your-face techno music. You can download the ROM for this demo here.

What Alienstyle features is some text flipping wildly that says ‘Protest’, likely in reference to the group to which Renderman belongs to, Protest Design. Under it, there is some text that has a word or two at a time and then fades into the next set of words. You can read the transcript below the video on this page.

Transcript

Game text (Punctuation mine):

Alienstyle presented by protest design for all you demo freaks out there. code graphics & music by Renderman. Charset by Koreaner. Modplayer by Lac. Thanks go to Immo. Textures style by H.R.Giger. Special thx go to my girlfriend who let me waste the whole day with coding and to accent for coding nothing for the last few words. Join #N64GER on efnet or visit our site to get our next demo for your N64. Thx for voting us 5th place at the POM held by dextrose. Bye LSR.

This is a fairly basic demo. The text implies that it was done in a day, which I presume means that the engine was there already and all Renderman did was replace assets and add timings.

He also gives thanks to the people who voted for him at Presence of Mind 1998, where he submitted another (more complex) demo called POMolizer. I haven’t made a post about it yet, but it’s sure to be in the pipeline.

The attached info files include some links to Renderman’s website, protest-design.de. Sadly, the website was only up for a year or two and now it belongs to a German quad bike company, so I won’t link to it. The in-game text also refers the reader to Dextrose.com an IRC chat on Efnet, but those are no longer operational.

Alienstyle

In 1999, Protest Design made a N64 homebrew demo called Alienstyle with an image style by H.R.Giger and some scrolling text. Let's take a look.